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Rated: ASR · Poetry · Horror/Scary · #2306414
The world wide web of fear

Fleeting, teasing, tricksy lights
have pierced the earthly veil.
Half-seen wraiths that roam the night,
with plaintive, trembling wails.

Gooseflesh squirms up restless arms,
cold prickles brush the neck.
Nameless dread and false alarm
beget a nervous wreck.

Not quite live nor wholly dead,
the barrow-wights appear,
to guard the tombs of Aethelred
with superstitious fear.

Banshees wail from Irish mounds,
an eerie keening cry,
darkly fearful warning sounds
portend a mourning sky.

Sirens sing seductive songs
that pierce Aegean gloom,
they steer enamored sailors wrong
and lure them to their doom.

Oni stalks high mountain peaks,
splitting rock asunder.
Nippon trembles when he speaks
a crashing roar of thunder.

Mogwai roams the Orient,
to right an earthly wrong,
hoards up grudges with intent,
wreaks vengeance from beyond.

Qalupalik, 'neath icy floes,
awaits the errant child,
drains their youth and leaves them old,
in frigid arctic wild.

Gaunt Wendigo, with ribs defined,
haunts woods and Midwest plains,
feeds endlessly on humankind
but hunger still remains.

Jersey Devil roams the night
among the barren pines,
with hopping, batwing, goat-faced fright
it shivers eastern spines.

Boogies crouch in closets dim
or bump beneath the bed,
waiting out poor tiny Tim
who lies awake in dread.

Alone in restless night we hark
the shades of far-off fate.
A vast, unknown, eternal dark
that all must contemplate.

Human tribes sing different airs,
a babel to the ear.
But demons pop up everywhere,
we share a common fear.



Author's note: 13 verses     *Web1*  *Ghost*  *Web2*


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